Improvement in toy cap-exploders



w. e. FISCHER.

- TOY CAP EXPLODER.

No; 190,481. Patented May 8,1877.

WiYZnesses' Q Inventor:

N1 PETERS. PHOTCFUTHOGRABHER. WASI'HNGTDNI D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIoa WILLIAM G. FISCHER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOY C AP-EXPLODERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 190,485, dated May 8,1877; application filed April 16, 1877.

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. FISCHER, ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Toy Gap-Exploder, of which the following is aspecification:

Figure 1 is a side View, partly in section, of my improved toycap-exploder, showing it charged. Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing itdischarged.

' Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothfigures.

This invention relates to a cheap and durable toy for children, whichwill explode paper or other small caps filled with an explosivesubstance.

The invention consists in the use of a rod or arrow that is embraced atone end by a sliding sleeve, and serves to hold and retain the explosivecap by friction directly against an anvil, which is sunk into orfastened to the end of the rod. When the rod is propelled againsta wallor other article offering sufficient resistance, the sleeve will becaused to slide backward on the rod and permit the cap to be exploded.

In the accompanying drawing, the letter A represents an arrow or rod ofwood, metal, or other material, and of suitable size and shape. At oneend, a, the arrow A is enibraced by a hollow metallic sleeve, b, thatcan slide lengthwise thereon, so as either to project over the end ofthe arrow-rod, as in Fig. l, or be drawn back over the body thereof, asin Fig. 2. The sleeve 1) may be provided with a longitudinal slot orslots, through which the head of a pin, d, driven into the arrow A,passes for guiding said sleeve and holding it on the rod. The arrow-Amay also be provided with a shoulder, e, as shown, for the inner end ofthe sleeve 1) to rest against. If

the arrow Ais made of wood or other soft material, its end a should becovered with a metallic or other hard tip or head, f. I prefer to slotthe sleeve b at its sides, near its outer end, in order to be able toinspect the position of a cap placed therein. The arrow A may bepropelled forward by a suitable bow, or by a toy pistol, B, having arubber band, g, which is laid over the end h of the arrow but the arrowmay be propelled in other suitable inanner.

In use, 'a flat explosive cap, 1', is placed against the end of thearrow, and the sleeve 1) is drawn forward to project over such end andhold the cap in place by friction, as shown in Fig. l of the drawing.The instrument is now held with the end on which the cap rests oppositeto a table, wall, or other article, and is then propelled forward. Thesleeve 1) will now, by the contact with the wall against which it ispropelled, be forced backward on the arrow, the cap '1} exposed, andexploded between the head f and the wall.

The invention is also applicable to a cane or equivalent device.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of the rod A with the slidingsleeve 11, which is open at both ends, and servesto' hold the cap byfriction until explosion takes place, and then recede to re lease andexpose the cap to contact with the object against which the instrumentis propelled, substantially as specified.

2. In a toy cap-exploder, the combination of the rod A, havingthe pin01, with the slotted sliding sleeve 12, which embraces one end of saidrod, substantially as specified.

WM. G. FISCHER. Witnesses: F. V. BRIEsEN,

E. O. WEBB.

